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December 2010
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Heterogeneous Class Size Effects: New Evidence from a Panel of University Students
Type: Journal Articles
Authors: Oriana Bandiera, Imran Rasul and Valentino Larcinese
ISSN: 0013-0133
Published in: The Economic Journal
Volume, issue, pages: Vol. 120, No. 549, pp. 1365-1398

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Using administrative records from a UK university, we present evidence on the effects of class size on students' test scores. We estimate non-linear class size effects controlling for unobserved heterogen-eity of students and faculty. We find that: (i) at the average class size, the effect size is -0.108; (ii) the effect size is negative and significant only for the smallest and largest ranges of class sizes and zero in intermediate class sizes; (iii) students at the top of the test score distribution are more affected by changes in class size, especially when class sizes are very large.

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